I would like to thank those who reviewed and stuck with me for these few chapters: DarkFlame Alchemist, Mischievous Wolf of Twilight, Angel of sweetness, and everyone else who reviewed . I had to name them 'cause they still review :D also angel of sweetness' story "A curse or a fate" has really been an inspiration to me and this story so go and read it XD. Well, enough of my rambling, on with the story!

Disclaimer: "I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any of the characters besides Becky and other OC's that may appear."

Enjoy!

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Recap:

"I love him…" She said to herself as she closed her eyes.

'I really do'…

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Stay way from him!

We're through…

My best friend…

Why?

We'll meet again someday…

Kairi shot up from her sleep, panting and reflecting.

"I'm dreaming," She thought to herself. "but it wasn't a dream"

It was a memory. A memory of the day Sora and Becky broke up…for real.

June. Kairi had transferred in the second week of January. Sora and Becky began going out after Christmas Break and continued for 2 months. In February, they broke up but soon got back together. Two more weeks later Sora had thoughts of breaking up with her but took the rest of the month to do so and wound up staying together for another month. Five months. Just five months and already Sora and Kairi were as close as can be. They were still friends of course, but Becky was always suspicious of Kairi. She was often cold to her, stayed away and tried to make Sora do the same, but it wasn't like him to be mean. Becky was jealous and that's all that Kairi saw. Though she didn't show it around Sora, it was written all over her face. She didn't want him involved and neither did Kairi for that matter. It was something between them and they wanted to keep it that away.

After-school. Kairi just closed her locker and turned around when she felt herself slamming right into it. She was face-to-face with an angry Becky.

"Stay away from him! I'm his girlfriend, you're just his friend! He doesn't even care about you!"

This got Kairi angry and she got up from the locker. Even though they were just friends, that's what friends did, care.

"Well even if we are just friends I care about him! You're just jealous that he actually does care about me and that he'll care about someone other than you! You're afraid to lose him and-!"

Becky slapped her. She looked like she was on the brink of tears yet she still managed not shed any.

"You don't know anything about me!"

"Becky, stop!"

The two girls turned around to see Sora standing there, a serious look of his face.

"Sora! How long have you been standing there?" Becky asked, her face turning from one of anger to one of shock.

"Long enough." he said as he tilted his head down. "Becky we're through."

Her eyes began to well. "It's because of her isn't it? This-" She raised her hand to slap Kairi again but this time Sora grabbed her hand in mid-air.

"I'm sorry." He said sympathetically.

She turned around, tears streaming from her eyes, freed her hand from Sora's grip and slapped him.

"I'm sorry too!" and with that Becky ran off.

When she disappeared around the corner, Sora sighed and held out his hand to Kairi.

"Man, can that girl slap." He said light-heartedly.

The red mark from Becky's slap was still visible but the way he acted, it was almost like it never happened. Kairi ignored the offered hand and lifted herself off the locker.

"It's ok. I can lift myself up." She said as she avoided eye contact with him. The redness from Becky's slap had gone down, but the redness from her blush was just starting. "I'm sorry."

"Hey, don't worry," Sora started as he put his hands in his pockets and looked down. "I was going to do it later anyway."

"You were?" Kairi asked. "Why?"

"It's complicated." He responded as he began walking down the hall.

Kairi followed him and the two walked in silence for a while. She finally decided to say something.

"So…what do you plan on doing now?"

"Not so sure about that, but I don't plan on going out with anyone anytime soon."

Kairi felt disappointed. "Oh…ok."

"But,-"They stopped walking and he turned around to face her. "I can tell you this."

"What?" Kairi asked curiously.

"That I will be spending more time with my best friend." and with that he put his arm around her shoulders in a playful manner and smiled. She did too.

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Now as Kairi sat in her bed she smiled to herself. But the smile soon faded as she recalled the second half of her dream.

August. The two were sitting at the beach's shore, the water lapping their feet, ice cream in their hands, watching the sunset.

"Kairi?" he said.

"What is it?" She said turning to see him with his head down.

Coming to the beach was his idea. He said that they should go to the beach before summer was over and enjoy the day. But that wasn't the real reason.

"I'm moving tomorrow."

She was hurt, hard. He was leaving and there was nothing she could do.

"We'll meet again someday…" he said reassuringly.

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Back then, she didn't believe him. Moving to another island far off their own, yet through twisted events they did.

"and it's time for some change."

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"Morning, Kairi." Namine said as her friend's figure appeared through the doorway.

"Morning, Nami." She replied as she took a seat next to Namine.

Namine was already eating breakfast and as soon as Kairi sat down, a maid came from the kitchen and set a plate with a lid in front of her.

"Here you are miss." he said as he lifted the lid of the plate, revealing bacon, eggs, and buttered toast.

"T-Thank you." Kairi replied flustered, being as she wasn't used to such luxury.

"It's ok Kairi you'll get used to it." Namine said as she noticed her friend's expression. "Thank you, Paula."

"The pleasure is mine." Paula then walked back into the kitchen.

"Hope you don't mind that I ordered for you," Namine started, "I didn't want us to be late."

"Guess I should get up earlier then." Kairi smiled

The two shared light conservation as they finished their meals and soon were heading out the door. Namine asked if Kairi wanted to take the limo to school but Kairi suggested that the two walk. They walked along the sidewalk enjoying the autumn scenery and chatting with each other when he images of two boys caught their attention.

"Hey!" Kairi started, "Isn't that Sora and Roxas?"

It was. They were skating on the other side of the street more ahead then Kairi and Namine, doing tricks with their boards along the way and unaware of their observers.

"Wow! They're really good!" Namine exclaimed as Roxas did a 360 spin with his board. "Hey guys!" She called out.

Roxas was in the middle of flipping his board when he heard Namine's voice.

"Namine?!" He thought, but was soon interrupted when he crashed into Sora.

"Nice Namine." Kairi commented as they went over to check on the damage.

"Watch where you're going, Roxas." Sora said as he pushed Roxas of him.

"Sorry dude. I just-"

"Are you ok?"

Roxas and Sora turned around to see Kairi and Namine running to them.

"Yeah." the two of them said as they got up.

"Do you to do this everyday?" Kairi asked jokingly.

"Only when one of us isn't paying attention." Sora replied, indicating to towards Roxas with his hand.

"Least I'm not the only one." Roxas said, as he slapped the back of Sora's head and walked by. "C'mon, we're gonna be late for school."

"You girls coming with?" Sora asked.

"Where else would we be going at this time?" They replied.

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RIIINNNGGGG

The 4 teens came rushing through the doors of the school, panting and continued down the halls to their homerooms.

"I thought you said it was a shortcut!" Sora said to Roxas as they ran down the empty corridors.

"I didn't expect us to get lost!"

"Whatever, my homeroom's that way," Namine started, "See you at lunch." She turned to the left and up the stairs while Sora, Roxas, and Kairi continued straight.

"Why did our homeroom have to be so far from the main entrance?" Kairi asked.

"I don't know but we gotta go faster." Sora replied and with at the three turned left and down another silent hall.

Namine opened the door and looked around for the teacher. She didn't see him but instead saw everyone out of their seats talking and goofing around. She stepped in the room and went to her seat next to Selphie, who was waving over to her.

"Where were you?" Selphie asked as Namine sat in the desk next to her.

Namine was about to explain when the homeroom teacher, Mr. Luxord walked in, holding his cup of coffee, with a somewhat pleasant look on his face.

"They had coffee in the teacher's lounge today." He smiled. It was a good thing he always waited for the staff to bring in more coffee after the supply ended. Otherwise, Namine would be sitting in detention for an hour after-school. "Everyone take your seats for attendance."

"I'll tell you later." Namine said to a highly anticipating Selphie. She sighed and sat down in the seat next to Namine.

As Mr. Luxord called out various names, Namine sat in her seat wondering how the others are handling the situation at hand.

"Namine Amuro?" He called out in his deep cheery voice.

"Here." she responded. 'Hope those guys are as lucky as I am.'

Sora, Roxas, and Kairi stood outside the door to their homeroom, trying to see if there way a way to sneak in without anyone noticing.

"Is Remore in there?" Roxas asked as Kairi searched through the window for the teacher.

"Not that I can see." Kairi began. "Should we still go in?"

"We have too, or it'll count as skipping." Sora answered.

"Might as well. Don't wanna get a-"

"What are you three doing out here?'

They turned around to face Ms. Remore, crossing her arms with a note in her hand.

"We were just-"

RRRIIINNNGGG. Students started coming out of their rooms and filling up the hallways.

"Bye!" and as the three started to mix in with the flow of teens, Ms. Remore called out to Roxas.

"Rivers! I need to talk to you!" She called.

Roxas stopped and wondered what it could be about and whether or not he should go back. He looked around for Sora and Kairi, but they were already too far down the hall. He sighed and went back to see what the teacher wanted to say to him.

"Yes." He said.

"I have a message about your schedule. Your 6th period chemistry class has been changed to first, to even out the numbers in each class."

Namine couldn't believe. First period history was the only class she had together with Kairi and Selphie. Sure it was a bore, but at least she wasn't the only one suffering. Now, with chemistry replacing history, and history as third, she would have to wait till lunch to see everyone.

Namine sighed, as she pulled out her books and got ready to go down the hall to the chem. lab.

Roxas sat down at one of the lab tables and slouched in his chair.

'Great way to start the day.' he thought. He put his hood up and he to relax before the bell rang again. He was about to fall asleep, when he heard a voice next to him.

"Is this seat taken?" The voice asked. He suddenly recognized the voice and shot up in his seat.

"Namine?!"

"Roxas?!"

Bell rang, as a slight blush crept across Roxas's face. 'Now what?'

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The days slipped by, from September to October, and all throughout the group became even better friends. They had their laughs and goofed-up moments as well as the awkward

ones. Nothing really progressed, relationship-wise, but there was something to be happy about. Sora's 17th birthday was coming up in another 2 weeks, and things were hectic. He had invited a bunch of people, convinced his uncle to him use his condo near the beach while he was away for the weekend, while everyone else was busy either buying a gift or finding a costume, for the party was on Halloween.

Sora, Roxas, and Riku were at Roxas' house doing guy stuff and just hanging' out. They were having a guy's Friday night and it felt good to finally just have some fun. The school year was proving difficult, but they still managed to hang out every couple of nights. As Roxas and Riku were sitting in the kitchen waiting for Sora to come back from the bathroom they started to discuss what gifts to give for his birthday while Roxas shuffled a deck of cards to play Go Fish.

"We have 2 weeks, so let's start thinking." Roxas began. "Is there anything he needs?"

"Not that I know of." Riku responded. "What about wants?"

"No. I was thinking about getting him a new board, but turns out he saved enough money to buy himself one already." Roxas shrugged, still shuffling the deck.

"Well, is there anything he likes lately?"

"Other then Kairi, no." Roxas said and the two shared a laugh. It was obvious he liked Kairi and that Kairi liked him but they were just too shy to say anything. "It not like we can just get 'em together." Roxas continued, spreading the cards out now.

An idea popped into Riku's head. "What if we could?"

Roxas stopped. "Could what? Get them together?"

"That and get him or her to confess." Riku explained.

"And how are we gonna do that?"

"I have an idea, we-"

"Sorry that I took so long, guys." Sora said as he sat down at the table. Roxas continued to give the cards out.

"It's ok." Riku said, as he began to smirk. "You really didn't miss much anyway."

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First thing's first, I'm very sorry for the delayed updates. With school and life, it's been hard to just sit down and type sigh also on a side note, I haven't been receiving as many reviews as a used to (. Don't worry, I promise that after this chapter, things will start getting interesting (remember Sora's birthday hint hint). You have a total right to be mad at me for not updating . Again Sorry. Please review and tell me of any mistakes in the story! Thanks.

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